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2A Daily News – Thursday, April 26, 2012 Community people&events Free recycling events noon, Tehama County/Red Bluff Landfill HHW Facility 19995 Plymire Road, Red Bluff. Businesses and govern- ment agencies must make an appointment in advance. Please call 528-1103. Small fees apply. No more than 9 tires per trip, it is State law. No tires larg- er than 17", large truck tires, or equipment tires. Tires on- the-rim will be accepted during this event • Free Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back,10 a.m.-2 p.m., Corning Police Department at 774 Third St, Corning and Tehama County Sheriff Department at 22840 Antelope Blvd., Red Bluff Properly dispose of expired, unwanted, or unused Phar- maceutical controlled substances and other medications anonymously. Intra-venous solutions, injectables, needles, and illicit substances such as marijuana or methampheta- mines will not be accepted Free Household Hazardous Waste Collection, 8 a.m.- nos Transfer Station, Aramayo Way, Los Molinos; Rancho Tehama Transfer Station, Stage Coach Road at Rancho Tehama Road., Tehama County/Red Bluff Landfill, 19995 Plymire Road., Red Bluff. E-waste will be collected at the Los Molinos and Rancho Tehama Transfer Stations during the tire event. noon, Tehama County Department of Social Services at 310 S. Main St. in Red Bluff and the Park and Ride commuter parking lot in Corning, corner of Third and Solano streets, All size televisions, microwave ovens, all computer equipment including printers and monitors, DVD and VCR's, fax machines, along with other small electronic items will be accepted free of charge • Free Passenger Tire Collection, 8 a.m.- noon Los Moli- Just in time for spring cleaning, Saturday is the big day for the collection events throughout the county. The follow- ing collection events scheduled for Saturday, April 28th are free to all Tehama County residents to include: • Free Electronic Waste (e-waste) Collection, 8 a.m.- Flower show children and adults By LORNA BONHAM There isn't a gardener alive whose soul hasn't filled with joy over the mature product of a seed or seedling planted several months earlier. It doesn't matter if this product is a glistening flower, a plump vegetable or a juicy fruit, the satisfaction is the same. Haven't you experienced this joy? Of course you have and so has every other gardener. Children can have this same joy as well. At the Red Bluff Garden Club Flower Show from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, May 4, and Satur- day, May 5, children can plant there own plant to take home and watch grow. They can also pretend to be a flower show judge and mark their favorite flower and design from the many that are on exhibit. bring container grown plants at the Red Bluff Garden Club Flower Show. Wednesday, May 2 to the Tehama County Fair Grounds Home Arts Building. They will be judged on Thursday the third and on exhibit for the public on Friday, May 4 and Saturday, May 5. Flower shows have been devel- If you are hesitant to enter, come to see the show. I'll bet you will see at least one thing that you can say, "Mine at home looks better than that one", or "I have one of those in my garden and no one even entered one". Maybe you will enter next year. public would like to enter the Red Bluff Garden Club show you can still do that. Entrees may be brought from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on If adults or children from the oped over the years by gardeners as a place for them to share the fun and exhibit their skill of growing an outstanding horticultural specimen. A show is a place for friendly com- petition and an exchange of ideas in gardening. You can enter any kind of blooming flower in a cut stem form as well as herbs, vines, arboreal branches and fruits, nuts and vegetables. You can also See you at the show. Red Bluff Garden Club meet- ings are open to the public. The program on Tuesday, May 29, which begins at 1 p.m. at 12889 Baker Road will be on 'Bonsai' by Carmen Scott For more infor- mation see the Web page at www.redbluffgardenclub.com or call 527-4578 or 384-1913. The Red Bluff Garden Club is affiliated with National Garden Clubs Inc., California Garden Clubs Inc., Pacific Region and Cascade District. PALoffers special training Saturday Acceptable materials include: fluorescent lights, trans- mission fluid, grease, pesticides, fertilizers, paint, stains, pool & spa chemicals, detergents, disinfectants, old gaso- line, kerosene, cresote, tar, aerosol cans, propane cylinders (small only), acids, bases, such as drain cleaner, tub & tile cleaner, etching products, and solvents. Please keep wastes in original containers For more information please contact the Tehama Coun- ty Sanitary Landfill Agency at 528-1103 or visit www.tehamacountylandfill.com. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. Setting it straight –––––––– It is the policy of the Daily News to correct as quickly as possible all errors in fact that have been published in the newspaper. If you feel a factual error has been made in a news story, call the news department at 527-2153. 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The tangled business affairs of John Mountstephen, who suddenly disappeared from the old Hatch ranch in the Cottonwood district on July 2 last year and has never been heard of since, are about to be settled as far as his former property interests here are concerned. Sheriff M. O. Ballard is to hold the last of a series of sales to satisfy the claims of numerous creditors at the ranch next Monday afternoon, beginning at 2 o'clock. —April 26, 1922 Tangled Business Of Mountstephen About Cleared Up The Tehama County Police Activities League (PAL) Martial Arts Pro- gram holds a special training day on the last Saturday of each month from noon to 4 p.m. for students age 10 and up. The special day is called Mesogi Barai — cleans- ing of the mind, body and soul — by performing only a few techniques with a five minute break every hour to use the restroom and to get a drink of water and have some trail mix. Then it's back on the mat. Riley Daricek, Isabel Sarmanto, Austin Larolan, P.J. Sarmanto, Nathan Townely and Chaos Vierra showed up for the sweat soaked training lead by Shi- han-("she-hahn"- Master Instructor) Benjamin Renteria. Shihan Ben was one of the original students when the PAL Martial Arts program was formed by Martial Arts Adviser/Advo- cate John Minton and Red Bluff Police Department Detective Jim Ainsworth in 1998. Shihan Ben was a freshman at Red Bluff High School and 13 at the time. His report cards back then were mostly Fs but he never gave up on himself and eventually graduated with a 4.2 GPA and was a member of the National Honor Society. He graduated from Chico State with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psy- chology and is employed by Butte County Mental Health as a case manag- er/worker. His ultimate goal is to become a youth advocate/mentor/coach and to attain a Master's Degree in social work. As a graded Shihan his cur- rent rank/grade is Black Belt 4th Degree. As a graded Shihan his current rank/grade is Black Belt 4th Degree. The other original student was then 12 year old Leslie Slate. Also a graduate of Red Bluff High School, she is currently serving in the United States Air Force as a law enforce- ment officer, is married to an Air Force law enforce- ment officer, with two children and is also grad- ed to Shihan, Black Belt 4th Degree. She has also served in Afghanistan in the War on Terrorism. Regular training is held 3-5 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays and is free to school age children from age 5 through completion of high school. The training facility (dojo) is located at 1005 Vista Way, Suite C next to the airport. The Martial Arts Program's motto is: "Claim victory over drugs, alcohol, tobacco, violence and bullying." For more information on all PAL programs, which are free, including Jr. Giants, street hockey, kickboxing, basket ball and others visit the PAL website: www.tehama- so.org or call 529-7920. Another website is also available at www.end- bully.com. History of the Humboldt Wagon Road A Kelly-Griggs House Guides Special Program will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, May 4 with a Power Point presentation by Marti Leicester and David Nopel, Native Californians and authors of "The Hum- boldt Wagon Road". The book offers readers an opportunity to ride the historic road from Chico to Susanville through images collected since the 1860s -- many never- before-published photographs and oral histories. In the 1850s, John Bidwell, early California pio- automobiles. From Civil War times until the present, the road has carried everything from lumber to tourists. neer, agriculturist, businessman and politician envi- sioned a freight and passenger route that would con- nect San Francisco, the Sacramento River and his newly established community of Chico. He wanted it to cross the mountains to the gold and silver mines in Idaho and Nevada. Bidwell financed, constructed and opened the road for horses, wagons, stage coaches, and eventually trucks and Authors Marti Leicester and David Nopel met in 2010 through a network of community friends inter- ested in local history and the environment. Marti has a particular interest in oral histories of the local area and the stories of lesser-known people. She grew up in the Bay Area and accompanied her folks on trips around the state as her dad collected books on Cali- fornia history. historic sites. She graduated from Stanford Universi- ty, majoring in Mass Media Communications and Film. She enjoyed a 33-year career with the Nation- al Park Service, serving in parks throughout the west and on the east coast as an interpretive ranger and manager. They camped and visited parks and media for parks and has always been fascinated with the development of the west and how land and people interact. She produced a variety of educational served in the U.S. Army and graduated from CSU, Chico, with a major in Business Administration and did extensive post-graduate work on the history of the American west. Nopel is descended from Butte County pioneers, curiosity was also piqued by his mother's vast collec- tion of inherited family heirlooms and a wide variety of items representing how people lived in times past. Research included nearly 30 interviews and over 400 photographs were collected from various sources all leading the authors to the hope readers would feel the romance, sense of discovery and excitement of the past revealed in the photos and stories. Expand and support a greater awareness of the area's local history, a greater appreciation of the Road's impor- tance and the importance of the communities along it. The presentation on May 4th is expected to take about an hour; open to the public; Kelly-Griggs House (parlor), 311 Washington St., Red Bluff. Doors open - 12:30 p.m. For more information call 527-5895. His interest in history stems from his dad's passion for collecting historic photographs over 40 years and interviews with early county residents. David's